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Uganda: Human rights violations by the National Resistance Army

Amnesty International has received persistent reports of human rights violations in 1991 in the northern Ugandan districts...

March 26, 2011

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Senegal: Torture: the Casamance case

Between 1982 and 1989 several hundred people in Casamance region were arrested for political reasons connected with a...

March 26, 2011

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Iran: The last executioner of children

Iran has the status of being the world's last official executioner of children. Amnesty International is publishing this report...

March 26, 2011

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Indonesia: Briefing to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: Women and girl domestic workers

This briefing to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women focuses on the lack of protection of women...

March 26, 2011

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Death Penalty in 2010: Executing countries left isolated after decade of progress

In the last decade, more than 30 countries have abolished the death penalty in law or practice. Fifty-eight countries worldwide…

March 25, 2011

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Annual Report: Uganda 2008

REPUBLIC OF UGANDA Head of state and government Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Death penalty retentionist Population 30.9 million Life expectancy 49.7…

March 19, 2011

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Annual Report: Uganda 2007

UGANDA REPUBLIC OF UGANDA Head of state and government: Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Death penalty: retentionist International Criminal Court: ratified There…

March 19, 2011

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Annual Report: Uganda 2006

REPUBLIC OF UGANDA Head of state and government: Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Death penalty: retentionist International Criminal Court: ratified UN Women’s…

March 19, 2011

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Annual Report: India 2005

Head of state: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Head of government: Manmohan Singh (replaced Atal Bihari Vajpayee in May) Death penalty: retentionist…

March 19, 2011

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Annual Report: Sri Lanka 2005

Head of state: Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga Head of government: Mahinda Rajapakse (replaced Ranil Wickremasinghe in April) Death penalty: abolitionist in…

March 19, 2011

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Annual Report: Uganda 2005

Head of state and government: Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Death penalty: retentionist International Criminal Court: ratified UN Women’s Convention: ratified Optional…

March 19, 2011

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Annual Report: Uganda 2004

UGANDA REPUBLIC OF UGANDA Head of state and government: Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Death penalty: retentionist UN Women's Convention: ratified Optional…

March 19, 2011